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iPhone with Frickin Lasers

In addition to assaulting your fellow commuter’s eardrums, you can now also sear their retinas.
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Book Review : Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst

I stumbled upon reference to this book when looking at requirements listed around a User Experience Designer position on Craigslist (not for me – a colleague’s posting, I swear). The posting required any potential applicant to have read the book, and have an opinion it’s merits.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? - John Wooden

Hey, look on the bright side, guys.

Now, it’ll be easier than ever to get desaturated photos of a sandwich on your “Wall.”
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The Dawn of Manimated GIFs

Anything BOTH chimp and Kubrick-related makes it automatically my favorite animated GIF. Click through to full size image to see the monolithic petting. Courtesy of Teehan + Lax.

OUI Brave a NUI World

This past weekend saw a great turnout for the Interaction Designers Association REDUX – a recap of talks presented in Dublin, Ireland in early February. The San Francisco chapter of the IxDA gathered at Adobe in China Basin on a glorious spring day.

Ghanan Post Office Rhythm

I wonder how this evolved, whether a step in the stamping of letters got overwhelmed by the cadence and had trouble keeping up. It would be a great motivator to make sure you don’t miss the beat, but I can imagine large piles of letters at my desk – still waiting for the next verse to come around.

Congratulations Adobe Acrobat! You win the most annoying dock icon award. Bounce for attention, whether I use you or not. #STFU #IXDproblems
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SXSW Recap [ 1 of 3 ] : Sixth Street of Separation

Wet. Wet. Wet. There’s nothing like the smell of damp nerd to get 35,000 people in the proper mindset to learn and experience the latest in technology trends here at SXSW.

SXSW Recap [ 2 of 3 ] : Trends in Talks & Panels

SXSW offers a deluge of content to try and digest; it’s difficult to make sense of it all. The holy grail of the “Social/ Mobile/ Local” trinity is a tired but obvious reoccurring theme

SXSW Recap [ 3 of 3 ] : Oversubscribed Serendipity

We’re winding down our time here in Austin, and the nerd masses are readying to vacate town to be replaced by the much hipper and edgier music crowd.

Strata Conference 2012

Prior to attending Strata, I had participated and presented in several data visualization programs that housed within larger, related conferences

Bake Dancing

If I can do my job half as good as this guy can bake bread, I’m set. The world kneads me.

House of API Evangelism

Earlier this year, we at had a great day at the ballgame with a number of developers of API-based applications. No easier way to get nerds together than to offer them free tickets, buy them beer and root, root, root for the home team. One API-guy in attendance was Kin Lane from the professional blog API Evangelist.

Android: What’s a Half-Million Between Friends?

The word from Larry Page at the Q2-2011 earnings call deep within the Googleplex is that Android is not actually registering 500,000 new devices a day, as tweeted just sixteen days prior, but instead 550,000. Rubin stated that the growth is 4.4% week-over-week, and up from 300,000 last December.